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Many years ago, My TA in 6.034 for some reason gave me a C for the semester. This made no sense because I was 80% sure I was supposed to get an A. I was hesitant to get in touch with the head TA for the class because I wasn't the sort of student to complain about a grade, but I did it anyway. He told me to come in and talk to PHW himself. I came in and he asked me why my TA would give me a C and I told him I had no i…
Today, I can't sleep because I can't stop crying.
RIP PHW.
Thanks for delivering on your 6.034 empowerment promise, and thank you for being the inspiration and a reason to continue onward in my mission.
Some of the best mentoring I have received on the inner workings of academia came from Patrick. A great example: his theory of presentations, where he had a wonderful template: Vision, Step and News, i.e., the grand theory of your research, the concrete steps you're taking in the next year or so and the latest findings. He gave me that advice two days before my defense and it worked like a charm.
A great teacher, a great mentor and a great human being. I will miss him.
Today, I weep because we lost PHW and because I lost PHW.
RIP PHW
Thank you for delivering on 6.034's empowerment promise.
My mission remains the same, but I can no longer hope to show you its results.
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> He asked me if I came into recitation, I said yes. He asked me if I participated in recitation and I said yes. Non native English speaker here. What does "came in to recitation" mean. Recitation is the act of repeating something. What was the Recitation about and how can you go in to recitation. Could you please explain ?
A “recitation” session is generally a regularly scheduled classroom session that is not led by the professor or lecturer but by a teaching assistant (TA). These are along the same lines as a “lab” sessions used alongside Chemistry or Physics lectures.
A few remain, but not many.
I'm deeply saddened by each loss. The soul of the Institute dies a little bit more each time.
i wonder what it must feel like at mit with two of its titans gone (minksy and winston). are there others stepping in their place? abelson and sussman are still there. in a world where machine learning has taken over "ai", it doesn't feel there are many left who have the ability and interest in researching general artificial intelligence.
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